ADVENT
14.
~John 9
O, I see! I see!
You were cast out,
weren’t you?
Washed your eyes
in the Siloam Pool
proclaimed:
whereas I was blind,
now I see.
Your people,
even parents,
turned their backs
on you,
denied you,
you with your new-
opened eyes.
Of course you must
have contempt for
for what you left,
what you lost.
on this strange
and lonely way
Two thousand years
away from you,
maybe I can see
your sneer
as the fear
that once it was.